Police: Video Game Inspires Alleged Crime Spree [Archive]

MarkM2112

11-14-2002, 06:19 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=294&e=1&cid=294&u=/ibsys/20021114/lo_wisn/1389761

Already it starts...

ventrra

11-14-2002, 10:19 PM

The nice thing is, Yahoo has a rating system for the story. I gave it a 1 out of 5 for the BS factor. >:(

spoon

11-15-2002, 02:55 AM

The PS2, made me do it, The PS2 made me do it, wahhhh!

This is just another example of society passing the blame.

moycon

11-15-2002, 04:21 AM

I voted it a 1 as well. I have family in Wisconsin and used to visit there every year. There is a reason serial killers (Lot of people don't know it, but when Dahmer was caught, there were 2 other serial killers at work in Wis at the same time!) booze (You can buy Jack D in any grocery store), porn (Lots of porn shops) and crime in general are rampant in Wis.... It's cuz it's a poor state and there aint shit to do there!!! The highlight of the year is the sawdust days festival (Don't believe me?? Look it up) Yep a sawdust festival...Hell I'd be drinkin, watchin porn and jackin cars too.

Video games indeed.

lionforce

11-15-2002, 06:25 AM

Naw I don't think I'll even bother reading the article, there is just no point to it, people in this country really need to start learning what responsibility is all about and that's all I will say about this topic :hmm:

kainemaxwell

11-15-2002, 07:36 AM

I'm surprised Senator Liberman hasn't jumped on this bandwagon yet to get GTA and Vice City banned or recalled yet myself...

Neo-Jorge

11-15-2002, 07:40 AM

Im so sick of this video game made me do it Crap.
Wait till Halo 2 comes out, HALO MADE ME DO IT.

Thanks

slapdash

11-15-2002, 12:49 PM

I voted it a 1 as well. I have family in Wisconsin and used to visit there every year. There is a reason serial killers (Lot of people don't know it, but when Dahmer was caught, there were 2 other serial killers at work in Wis at the same time!) booze (You can buy Jack D in any grocery store), porn (Lots of porn shops) and crime in general are rampant in Wis.... It's cuz it's a poor state and there aint shit to do there!!! The highlight of the year is the sawdust days festival (Don't believe me?? Look it up).

Sawdust Days? You got kin in Oshkosh?

Yep a sawdust festival...Hell I'd be drinkin, watchin porn and jackin cars too.

C'mon, there ARE other things to do in Wisconsin. If you're that bored, you ain't trying.

Of course, in Wisconsin, you can add drinking to just about anything. And if you stuck to watching porn and drinking, you wouldn't have any hands free to jack cars.

And Sawdust Days is about drinking.

Kroogah

11-15-2002, 02:00 PM

Um....if video games are the problem, why doesn't stuff like this happen more often?

Millions of people play "violent video games" so if you go by that logic, shouldn't millions of crimes like this be happening?

ashbourn

11-15-2002, 02:13 PM

If gta did make them do it then it is sad how little self control they have.

Captain Wrong

11-16-2002, 12:22 PM

"They trashed the inside of the car, pulled everything out of the glove compartment, just threw it around," said Don Bielski, whose car was broken into.

Someone broke into dozens of parked cars inside the parking garages, stealing whatever was inside.

Funny thing is this EXACT same thing happened to me when I was living in Muncie in 1998. I mean, everything pulled out of my glove box and the whole deal. They hit several people living in our apartements.

Let's see, 1998. What game could we have blamed it on then?

MankeyMan

11-16-2002, 01:24 PM

Funny thing is this EXACT same thing happened to me when I was living in Muncie in 1998. I mean, everything pulled out of my glove box and the whole deal. They hit several people living in our apartements.

Let's see, 1998. What game could we have blamed it on then?

Zelda OoT. Gannondorf threatened to kill me otherwise.